April 2013 Windows patches changing permissions

The April 2013 patches I installed changed Windows Update to "automically" from "let me choose" without any notice it was doing so. I found this out when an "important" nvidia driver installed itself and I lost work on the reboot.

I used a restore point to get rid of the driver. The new one had some kind of new automatic update service too which I'm no way allowing.

So in addition to the broken security patch, which hung my system when uninstalling, they're now hacking my system without permission.

SOLUTION: Disable Windows Update service. Still thinking about removing all April 2013 patches to remove other possible hidden damage.

This is the first I've heard of this. Is it at all possible someone else logged into the machine(s) around the same time the patches came down who has access to change this? Installing a driver isn't something WU will normally do on its own if I remember correctly.

The April 2013 patches I installed changed Windows Update to "automically" from "let me choose"

No way this happened. Is this a home computer or work computer? Who else has access to it?

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I found this out when an "important" nvidia driver installed itself

Automatic updates never installs drivers. You can install drivers from there (don't BTW) yourself, but they won't install automatically.

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and I lost work on the reboot

Save your work often. This means you either went to bed without saving (tsk tsk), or the updates settings have been changed to install in the middle of the day and reboot automatically without the customary countdown to reboot.

My home computer and I'm the only one with access to it as no one else lives here.

It looks like I'm outvoted 3-1. Thanks for the comments folks.

I may have reset it myself when I reset the Windows Installer history after removing the security patch and it hung.

This is also the first time I've seen a video driver marked as an "important" fix. I'd really like to see the driver version made available without having to install it. As a general rule I don't install drivers unless I'm having problems.

Automatic updates never installs drivers. You can install drivers from there (don't BTW) yourself, but they won't install automatically.

Why not?

I'll admit, back in the Windows 98 days Windows Updates supplied drivers were pretty freaking dismal and had a better than average chance of not working, but with Windows 7 I've seldom met that problem.

I have met a problm with a USB device that would go off to Windows updates for a driver and then not work and have to roll back to the one installed from it's CD (note ... don't lose that particular driver CD).

I've often used Windows Updates to install Video card drivers for $random POS$ than hunting for the specicifc device from either Intels web site or the OEMs craptastic web site (typically Acer)

Automatic updates never installs drivers. You can install drivers from there (don't BTW) yourself, but they won't install automatically.

Why not?

I'll admit, back in the Windows 98 days Windows Updates supplied drivers were pretty freaking dismal and had a better than average chance of not working, but with Windows 7 I've seldom met that problem.

There was an update to an AMD SATA driver available as part of this month's Patch Tuesday. I normally only use drivers from Windows Update as an absolute last resort, and since I only use my integrated SATA controller for my DVD-ROM, I really have no reason to update it barring some freak security issue. But it was available, and it wasn't the type of driver that required a lot of supporting applications like a video card driver would, so I figured, "what could possibly go wrong?"

I'm such an idiot

I spent the next several hours getting myself out of a Startup Repair loop. I'm thankful that I was using a separate RAID controller for my actual storage; I'd probably have been stuck re-installing otherwise. Oh, and because installing the driver immediately crashed Windows, once I could actually boot back into, I had to repair Windows Update as well

With the exception of a handful of USB-to-serial converters, I have never had a positive experience with a driver from Windows Update.